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Best tactic I know for...Patching your personal suck By: Merlin Mann (16 replies) January 15, 2005 - 10:56am |
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Best tactic I know for...
Best tactic I know for breaking “the block” - not always writers, sometimes just getting started or completing projects - is to interview yourself. For fiction and screenplays and such, use a david letterman kind of figure: “Well what I was really trying to say in this story, Dave…” But it also works for other projects: “There’s a funny story about how I reached the Q3 targets…” Only requirement: got to get it out of your inner dialogue and on paper. (And posting it here is a great reminder to myself to do it more often.)